Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eugenic Mendoza and onetime University Professor Bias Lamberti. To reassure the civilians even further, Larrazabal then named a 13-man Cabinet with only one military member: Air Force Colonel Jesús Maria Castro LeÓn, a leader of the original anti-Pérez Jiménez plot. The civilians and some members of the armed forces were still displeased. Two junta colonels, they protested, were merely holdovers from the Perez Jimenez administration. Larrazabal fired them and put them on the first plane for Curagao...
...Body Beautiful (music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick; book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman) is wholeheartedly, though in spots enjoyably, mediocre. Treating of the fight world, it drapes the plot round a rich, handsome Dartmouth graduate who wants to box his way to glory and falls in love with a girl who disapproves. Their squabbles over the ring, and his adventures in it, are about the dullest part of the show. It bounces to life in Jack Warden's amusing, likable performance as a fight manager, most notably when he goes fully clothed, on business...
...thumb. He bears down to good effect in the battle sequences among the umber Dolomites, and he shrewdly distracts his audience, during the dullest stretch of the story, with a ravishing cinemalbum of the blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded midriff, seem intolerably long. All in all, the Selznick thumb has rubbed the bloom off Hemingway's mood, while the mere facts of the story are taken in deadly Ernest...
...Venezuelan Dictator-President Marcos Pérez Jiménez scrambled desperately to snatch back some of his waning authority and prestige. Last week he broke up a new plot masterminded by his longtime chief of staff. General Rómulo Fernández. 45, and hustled the general off to exile. At the same time, he partially reversed the humiliating Cabinet shuffle forced on him when his fortunes were at low ebb a fortnight ago (TIME...
...like a pulse-bumping 19th century melodrama that lacks the courage of its afflictions. The lover, when he finally arrives, is not the man Vanessa was waiting for, but his son Anatol, a fatally charming young man who promptly seduces Vanessa's niece Erika. From there on the plot seems to thunder toward a traditional deathbed climax: Vanessa falls in love with Anatol, they announce their engagement, and pregnant Erika rushes out into the bitter, stormy night. Yet death and destruction are sidetracked. Though Erika has a miscarriage, she survives her night in the snow; Anatol and the unsuspecting...